Wnt4, a pleiotropic signal for controlling cell polarity, basement membrane integrity, and antimüllerian hormone expression during oocyte maturation in the female follicle

FASEB Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1568-1581

  Prunskaite Hyyryläinen, Renata ^a   Shan, Jingdong ^a   Railo, Antti ^a   Heinonen, Krista M ^b,c,d   Miinalainen, Ilkka ^a   Yan, Wenying ^a,e   Shen, Bairong ^e   Perreault, Claude ^b,c   Vainio, Seppo J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN IMMUNOLOGY AND CANCER   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^e SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cell polarity; Ovarian development; Premature ovarian failure; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

BETA CATENIN; CONNEXIN 43; DOXYCYCLINE; GELATINASE A; LAMININ; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; WNT4 PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL JUNCTION; CELL POLARITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS LUTEUM; DIESTRUS; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EXON; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GRANULOSA CELL; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; METESTRUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE ATRESIA; OVARY FOLLICLE CELL; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; PHENOTYPE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROESTRUS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATIC CELL; UPREGULATION;

CELL POLARITY; OVARIAN DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; SEX DETERMINATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; BASEMENT MEMBRANE; CELL POLARITY; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GRANULOSA CELLS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; WNT4 PROTEIN;

EID: 84901033489     PISSN: 08926638     EISSN: 15306860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1096/fj.13-233247     Document Type: Article

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